Jan 28, 2009

You have an opportunity to donate to the family of the Burqa Lady

Remember the Burqa Lady? In the Hebrew media known as "Eishet ha'Taliban"?

She has been in the court system for a long time, and there has been very little info on the progress of her case.

Today, her son in law was seen in the shtieblach in Yerushalayim collecting money on her behalf, ostensibly for the needs of the family because the mother who brought in the parnassah in the family has pretty much gone out of her mind and no longer can support them... the question is if your donation is going to buy food and pay the electricity bill, or is it going to be used to pay for her lawyers....

From the letters below, from the Tzedaka fund opened on her behalf, you can see just how easy it is to get signatures from the gedolim for these things. Either they are forged, which I doubt (but could be), or he just told them he is ocllecting for a woman who can't support her family, with a sob story attached, and did not say who she is, and they simply signed on it.

Some of the minor details in the tzedaka flyer are incorrect. They probably made some minor changes to try to hide her identity...

11 comments:

Ok, I'm trying to not be too much of a cynic, however, they throw around these flyers when the husband dies, b/c he was supporting the family (even though they seem always to be for a talmid chuchum muflag - who I would guess their wife was working to support this t"c?). But now in this case where the wife - the breadwinner - is out of action, they also take up a collection?!

They seem to want it both ways. Why don't they just take up a collection for all the kolleliet whose wives are not capable of, or just don't want to work. What's the difference?

I don't really trust Lieberman. I look at him like another Ariel Sharon. He is fine and dandy for a while, then suddenly he will do the complete opposite. How many times has he said he wants to give the Palestinians control over East jerusalem? And then he announces publicly how he is against splitting Jerusalem. One day he will show us all his true colors....

anon - good point. it does not say so. It does not say anything about who is behind it. Basically if you give them money, you are giving money to an anonymous person who says he is collecting charity for an anonymous person. You are mailing it to a PO box, with a 1-800 number, and basically have no idea who is behind it.

the one reference with a name is "The committee for saving families in distress" on the horaat keva form.

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